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IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy reports on rumors that IE8 may be Internet Explorer's swan song: 'IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser,' Kennedy writes. 'It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all.' And what will replace it? Some are still claiming that Microsoft will go with WebKit, which is used by Safari and Chrome. The WebKit story, Kennedy contends, could be a feint and that Microsoft will instead adopt Gazelle, Microsoft Research's brand-new engine that thinks like an OS. 'This new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.'" The sticking point will be what Microsoft does about compatibility for ActiveX apps.

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  1. Nope, not webkit... by mdm-adph · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they're going to buy Mozilla. Mark my words. :P

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    1. Re:Nope, not webkit... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those fucking weasels. At least they didn't call it LOLcat.

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  2. Thinks like an os, eh? by mevets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given their history, this could be pretty funny.

    1. Re:Thinks like an os, eh? by xSander · · Score: 5, Funny

      Blue Page of Death

  3. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because Balmer frowns on extramarital sex between software components

  4. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX by the_humeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    People seem to forget that we have sold way more computers than people in the world

    Yes, especially since the emancipation proclamation was nearly 130 years ago.

  5. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app.

    But I was looking at ActiveX's facebook page and it had like a million friends in common with Windows - isn't that a deep connection?

  6. Re:Please kill ActiveX by e4g4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can you kill that which does not live?

    By using sudo:
    sudo kill -9 ...

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  7. Re:Please kill ActiveX by zizzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've clearly never tried to kill a zombie process.

  8. Re:Please kill ActiveX by jmorris42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > > How can you kill that which does not live?

    > By using sudo:
    > sudo kill -9 ...

    Nope. A process that isn't alive is a zombie. And kill -9 won't kill a zombie. We need a grenade_launcher command. After all, to quote the old Quake manual:

    "Thou can not kill that with doth not live. But you can blow it to chunky kibbles."

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  9. Moore's Law makes some problems easy, yay. :) by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

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  10. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX by glittalogik · · Score: 4, Funny

    A better technical explanation would be that ActiveX can lick Windows' bellybutton from the inside.

  11. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    DEPRECATED, motherfucker. DEPRECATED.